"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid." Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid. ...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

Pointing out that the Emperor's got no pants on would call into question why they weren't asking why the Emperor had no pants on last month.

Seems like a good track for tonight

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

The supposed defenders of national sovereignty and opponents of internationalism have incinerated the longstanding principle that members of one country's government shouldn't show up to campaign and tell people how to vote in another country's elections.

Do you have a Republican representative or senator? Today is a good day to phone them. Tell them to do *something*. They’re probably not going to employ the 25th amendment, but they should at least speak out about the importance of peace and the horrors of war.

Depluralize a movie: American Graffito

Depluralize a movie: Dial M for Crow

The Fellow with The Ring

Depluralize a movie 1: A Space Odyssey

Depluralize a movie You Only Live Once

Depluralize a movie Ocean’s One

Wish they’d made a sequel to “I, Robot” called “II, Robot.”

That graphic from Murphy is part of the problem. Throwing together a bunch of bad stuff together as "corruption" just because it's bad. Like, some of that stuff is awful, probably illegal, but has no obvious relation to profiteering and bribery. If everything is corruption, nothing is corruption.

We've told people for so long, because it's the cheap and easy political message, that every bad policy outcome or sleazy political influence is cartoonish bags of cash corruption, when it fact it very rarely was in the US. And now the real thing is here and it's hard to convey why it's abnormal.

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Have I ever quote-tweeted Brenden before? Perhaps not.

"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."

Yeah. An unintentional slip but a bad one. I have ancestors who’ve been here since the 1740s. I am a “birthright citizen” no different from, on the exact same legal basis as, somebody born here whose parents are noncitizens.

The last time an AI song was said to be at the top of streaming services, it was entirely fabricated by bots gaming the system designed to count streams. Like buying a New York Times bestseller spot.

Valuable thread! Spread the word.

After reading a lot of the Claude Code base that was leaked taught me two things 1. I have never been more reassured than I am now. Software Developers will be around for a long time. 2. Claude Code has a hidden command to hide that a contribution was made by a Claude employee

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I want to put this as plainly as possible: This site has way too many self-righteous, underinformed assholes looking to pick a fight. We need fewer of them and more people with Mark's expertise.

An underrated addendum to the Bowling Alone story is that North America's largest bowling operator (Bowlero) is a publicly traded company whose business model involves buying mom and pop alleys, shutting down the leagues, and trying to attract casual, higher paying, one-off players.

"burglariously" (A word not picked up by my Word spell-check, though it is setting off Safari's. And yes, it turns out to be in the dictionary.)

In college I wrote a play about AI that got performed, put a lot of work into it… and after watching the first dress I was like oh, fuck, I just wrote encounter at far point.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Once you understand that contemporary social media moral panic has more to do with Big Tech wanting mandatory age verification in order to both harvest more data and make more money, this whole thing makes a lot more sense. Meta, Palantir et al are astroturfing groups calling for age verification.

My birthday is now closer to the first inauguration of Barack Obama than to today.

This remains, twelve years later, very good. youtu.be/VC472Gx9AwU

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

This version of "Oh! You Pretty Things"--the first released, I think--is among the most sinister things I know of: youtu.be/xSxv8n5OpzQ?...

Keep reading for the AI part.

CA could, right now, re-legalize write-ins in general elections by statute. Two thirds needed to take immediate effect, which Dems have. There's also a bill filing deadline already past, but bills approved by the Speaker or Senate Rules Cmte are excepted. It's nuts they haven't done this already.

hopefully you can read and write and think and feel when chatbots go offline

The denominator seems relevant here (as total humanities funding is shown in the green line bouncing along the bottom of the figure): bit.ly/3PuK77h

I have a coworker who used to work at a place where they 100% vibe-coded everything and: four months. They got four months worth of work done, and then the AI was unable to contribute to its own codebase without breaking an existing test. At the time he quit, they estimated 6 months worth of cleanup

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It's appalling that this is considered a scholarly project. It's not. If you look at the author, his portfolio is just websites for oil well drillers, paving contractors, the American Racing Pigeon Union... this guy is just a tech bro. He's not a digital humanist. craigvandergalien.com

the progressive in the race for maine senate who has not worn a nazi tattoo, worked for blackwater, or used homophobic slurs on reddit.

Trump: "I also want to thank FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, perhaps the most powerful man in this room. You are doing some job. He's trying to make the fake news real and respected again."

Screw you, New Yorker.

I would just like to note how Fox News framed this:

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